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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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JAMES R. GAUJVAN, university director of risk management and benefits, beginning August 8, 1987 (NY), at an annual salary of $65,000. WARREN E. GASTON, director of admissions and records, Chicago, beginning September 1, 1987 (NY), at an annual salary of $58,000. LEOPOLD G. SELKER, acting associate dean for academic affairs, College of Associated Health Professions, and visiting professor of medical social work and of physical therapy, Chicago, beginning September 1, 1987 (NY;N) at an annual salary of $72,000. KENNETH N. STATZER, assistant director of risk management and benefits, University Office of Risk Management, beginning August 8, 1987 (NY), at an annual salary of $43,000. LADISLAV ZUCUSTA, director of the Center for Advanced Study, on 50 percent time, and professor of linguistics, on 50 percent time, Urbana, beginning September 1, 1987 ( N ; A ) , at an annual salary of $60,050. O n m o t i o n of M r . Wolff, these appointments were confirmed. President's Report on Actions of the Senates Establishment of an Interdisciplinary Minor in Latin American Studies, Sciences and Letters Curriculum, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Urbana (10) The Urbana-Charapaign Senate has approved the establishment of an interdisciplinary minor in Latin American Studies, Sciences and Letters Curriculum, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, effective fall 1987. The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies has offered a field of concentration in Latin American Studies since 1977. They proposed the establishment of an interdisciplinary minor in this field to respond to the growing number of students who have an interest in pursuing Latin American Studies concurrently with fields of concentration in traditional disciplines. Requirements, equivalent to a departmental minor, include: (1) five to six hours of study of, or demonstration of competence in, a Latin American language beyond the level of the Liberal Arts and Sciences foreign language requirement; (2) 15 hours in Latin American Studies courses; and (3) approval of the program of study by the student advisor of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Revision of the Field of Concentration in Latin American Studies, Sciences and Letters Curriculum, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Urbana The Urbana-Champaign Senate has approved the revision of the Field of Concentration in Latin American Studies, Sciences and Letters Curriculum, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, effective as soon as possible. The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies seeks to provide a more structured field of concentration in Latin American Studies. The principal change consists of replacing the primary and secondary focus with required course work in three of five perspectives: anthropological and geographical; historical; humanistic; social, political, and economic; and ecological and environmental. The entire revised program requires 45 semester hours of course work, three hours more than the current one. These revisions force students to choose their courses from a structured set of five persepectives, encourage students to diversify their choices. and provide a solid introductory course and a senior-level course of individual study.